News the HP Doesn't Cover: East Jerusalem Residents Prefer Israel

Matt
Huffington Post Monitor
06 May '11
Posted before Shabbat


http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/2011/05/news-hp-doesnt-cover-east-jerusalem.html

In what seems like a weekly event, yet another poll has come out of Jerusalem in which east Jerusalem Palestinians are polled about their residency status if a Palestinian state was created and east Jerusalem was part of it. The highest percentage of those surveyed indicated that they would not want to be in east Jerusalem if the Palestinians are given control over it:

"A recent survey conducted by Pechter Middle East Polls, in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, ahead of the possible Palestinian bid for statehood in September, revealed that given a choice, the majority of east Jerusalem residents would prefer to remain Israelis.


The survey sampled 1,039 Palestinians living in all 19 neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, and was supervised by Dr. David Pollock.


Perhaps the most striking finding regarded the residents' citizenship preference, after a two-state solution is reached: When asked if they preferred to become citizens of Palestine or remain citizens of Israel, only 30% chose Palestinian citizenship.


Thirty five percent chose Israeli citizenship and 35% declined to answer or said they didn’t know.


When asked if they would move to a different home inside Israel if their neighborhood became part of Palestine,40% said they were "likely to move to Israel" and 27% said they were "likely to move to Palestine" if their neighborhood became part of Israel...Also, 44% of east Jerusalem's residents seem content with their standard of living, while 31% said they were not content with it. "

Interesting findings, once again it seems like Israel isn't exactly the apartheid state the haters pretend it is.

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